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they elected trump; they should worry about their own economy
The latest figures I could find from August 2024 shows that USA imports slightly more from UK than vice versa. It is in balance when rounded to the nearest billion.
Any changes to this would backfire 1:1 on the US.
What's the connection between US/UK trade balance and Netanyahu anyway.
But that billion would be more impactful to the UK economy over the US one due to their respective sizes.
Would be totally worth it though, not that it would happen.
What's the connection between US/UK trade balance and Netanyahu anyway.
This was said by an elected Senator from the United States of America. It doesn't have to make sense or follow any reasons. 😂
It is school yard bullying: "Do what I say or I will punch you".
If UK obliges to that, he's just going to use the same threat over and over.
It is school yard bullying: "Do what I say or I will punch you".
It absolutely is. But they call it "Balance Of Power" in polite circles.
It's cute that this guy thinks he can crush the UK economy more than the Tories did for the past 14 years.
There’s no way the Yanks can hurt our economy any more than we can.
There are three players that can hurt our economy. The UK, the US, and the EU.
Such a bullshit article using Trump in the headline when talking about what a gay Republican Senator said. Trump has famously disowned his mentor/lawyer when he got AIDS and it became apparent that he was gay. Graham might have his nose painted by Trump's ass, but Trump doesn't look his way.
If Trump didn't know Roy Cohn was gay, he was one of the only people in New York who didn't. Which, considering Trump's monumental ignorance, is entirely possible.
Very thoughtful to give Starmer an excuse for not doing something he was never going to do anyway.
He very publicly committed to doing just that, what are you talking about?
Starmer has already said the UK will honor the arrest warrant.
He's said the exact opposite.
Lets remember. That is pretty much a garrentee he won't have to.
Not like Netanyahu is required to visit his jurisdiction. Publicly declaring this will ensure he dosent.
Until Netanyahu starts pushing the issue and visiting other countries one after the other to show ICC as toothless.
They'll probably start with a sure thing and then go through less hostile countries, till they go to one that said it will honor the warrant. And with more countries "behind", acting on the warrant will seem "irrational". It's a bluff, but one that is very likely to work to "normalize" the political situation after the genocide.
Hi I've just teleported here from a neighboring timeline. How is it going, Earth-420chungus69?
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Jesus Christ.
It's like, IF we are in a simulation... we are the trash-tv of generated content, bordering pulp.
I always imagine future historians having so much fun learning about this period.
Around the campfire in the flooded ruins.
If the billionaires club doesn't destroy or close source the data. Regarding the value, our Data is the one which wasn't tempered with (Ai).
So yes .. we are famous in the future! (Kind of)
Before or after the US crushes its own economy first?
if I'm going down, I'm taking you with me.
Too late, they already did it to themselves with Brexit.
Jokes on Trump. We like fucking up our economy.
Bring it on
Starmer is a well-documented Zionist. There's no way old Huckleberry Graham would need to follow up on a threat like that.
Be wary of Lindsey, you cross him and his MEMAW will git ya!
I dunno why these chowder heads think they are the kind of people that will get raptured. "Oo I do lots of evil shitty things but I'm totally going to get chosen by a sky fairy who picks people for doing nice things."
Hey, don't bring chowder into this. Chowder is delicious.
Delicious but also not known for being particularly bright ..
who picks people for doing nice things
That's not what most evangelicals (and the rapture is at this point mostly only subscribed to in its usual sense by US evangelicals so far as I can tell) believe. It's all about the Jesus not the nice.
You're quite right, supply side Jesus seems to have a bit of a different focus than classical nice guy Jesus..
"No-one is the villan of their own story."
They think they are doing more good than harm. It's fucked up, but it's still helpful to understand how they view the world. It makes it easier to predict and counter them.
To them, it's like you threatening to beat up the local priest, while on the way to a major aid drive, because he parked wrongly. They are stepping into stop you interrupting the Lords work! Of course they will be rewarded for that!
They are mentally ill sociopaths.
It doesn't make sense because you're trying to ascribe logic where there is none.
Our allies learning the hard Lesson about their pecking order within US power structures
Netanyahu and Putin are learning alright, but it's not very hard on them.
Israel planned to bomb US and UK targets in Egypt in a false flag called the Lavon Affair.
Israel tried to sink the USS Liberty (killing US citizens).
Israel stole Uranium from US Uranium stock piles when the US said they weren't allowed to have a nuclear program (eg. They started one anyway with stolen US Uranium).
Israel isn't some friend to the US. It never has been. Lashing out at the UK in defence of Netanyahu's war crimes is just part of the self-hatred America shows for its self in the name of Israel.
America - who soon under Trump may halt all support of Ukraine and leave Europe to fend for its self against Russia (but probably won't due to other powers that be).
The point is, America keeps threatening its European allies in the name of people doing war crimes (Putin and Netanyahu).... It's starting to look like; How you say - an axis of evil.
Zionists also bombed the British King David Hotel. The group that carried out the attack, Irgun, later became Likud, Netanyahu's party.
Don't forget selling US technology to Russia.
... self-hatred ...
We are talking about Lindsey Graham, after all.
We are just waiting for boomer brainrot to die off, this blind israel support gonna lose public support
Sad reality is that Palestinians will be genocided in the mean time but that's just how things work when you permit foreign state to infiltrate your institutions like AIPAC did within US.
Parasites deff ran psyop of the century to get US to pay for the genocide in both political clout and straight cash.
Clearly folks didn't learn their lessons because they forgot USS liberty.
As the old die off, additional people become old. Don't assume they'll be any more immune to brain rot.
GenZ gonna start sucking Israeli dick?
!remindmein20years lol
Religion cannot end soon enough. It is the root of all the common people's support of Israel.
Most Israelis are secular nationalists.
I'm talking more about the American rabble that think they're going to bring Jesus back by supporting Israel at any cost and voting Republican.